#backyard coop

[rmspeltzfarm]

Queens of the coop today we are

[chocolettchoo]

About a week left to pre-order these chickens! This would be the 4th round of pre-orders which is insane!! Thank you so much for the support !

Order here :3

[alcnfr]

Some assorted feathered friends from the morning...

[timmurleyart]

Lemon drop rooster. 🍋🐓🟨 (commissions available)🐔

[ryanscabinlife]

The shanty chicken coop

27-Aug-2023

Follow the coop journey:

1-Jul-2023 // 15-Jun-2023 // 17-Apr-2023

[foxkidd]

for the LONGEST time ive asked for chickens and finally got a trio! i baby-sat a lamb and their clutch (in an incubator) over the last week for my mom's friend and these guys hatched early, they were supposed to hatch tuesday but hatched sunday instead!

I'm gonna do the thing where you take a picture of them everyday to track growth and post them here. They're 4 days old today

haven't decided on names yet, but i do have a name theme in mind :3

[peter-pan-hoe]

This is possibly the funniest thing I’ve ever said

[mwittier]

Miss Valise, who I absolutely adore for being the middle-aged, stubborn, change-hating demon that she is, has always refused to sleep in the coop with her “peers” (I imagining her rolling her eyes and snorting at that term) and has always slept in the run, on a high perch, by herself. This hasn’t been that much of a problem, even in our grim winters, because of a sweeter heater right over her head, and when it’s below zero, I trek out to the run and bring her into my studio for the night (I’m an artist) to stay warm.

She’s big and heavy, and I had made these goofy stairs four years ago that led to her nightly perch, that were sort of random heights, and she’d hop with both feet to make the taller steps. Now that she’s aging though, I could see she’d been stalling at some of the taller required hops, not quite as sure of her agility as she used to be.

So I decided to banish the poetry steps, and make her an evenly spaced, less challenging ramp to use each night, knowing full well she’d hate the change, no matter how much easier it was for her to climb. And since I was at it, I’d make her a new boudoir that was more closed-in, so that she could stay warmer easier, too.

I had a bad accident before I could build either, I fell off a ladder in October, broke three vertebrae, my sternum, and had traumatic brain injury. Spent a month in the hospital/rehab, and I swear, each night (once I had regained brain function anyhow) I worried about Miss Valise making it up her stupid steep old steps, and shivering in her too-open bedroom. So as soon as I was able to go home from rehab, still using a walker, I built her some lovely, safe, sturdy new steps, and a sweet little sleeping chamber with a new, flat panel heater. I installed the steps myself, asked a friend to help me install the sleeping chamber at the top, and it turned out nicely, despite my new physical limitations. It took about a week, during which time Miss Valise slept in the studio.

Or I should say, she slept in her new bedroom. Because even after she checked out her new, custom, somewhat painfully built new digs, she promptly rejected them (after five years of insisting on ONLY sleeping there), and she has decided that she now owns the studio. There’s an upholstered chair in there that she happily snoozes in and poops on (it’s got a washable throw over it.) When everyone else with feathers leaves the studio for the night, she heads for the chair and watches them like, “G’night Lowly Outdoor Creatures.” I tried shooshing her out with everyone (they all hang out with me in the studio in the daytime hours), but she just stood angrily staring at me through the glass of the door.

I truly adore her (all of them, tbh) and I don’t even mind that much that I pointlessly labored on a new bedroom for her, but it gets dark by five p.m. here in the winter, so my studio is sort of pre-reserved by her every evening. Poor old curmudgeon (her I mean, not me.) We’ll see how this goes, I guess. If I work in the studio at night, she might decide to go back to her old spot.

[grampasoup]

Camilla Disapproves

I had to replace the actuator on the coop door today. It was a tricky job, but luckily I had an experienced technician to assist me:

[whippetcrimes]

Not really a puppy update, but kind of one anyways:

Over the course of this year, our neighborhood has been increasingly unsafe. From very occasional incidents over the years we've been here, to multiple shootings and murders within a quarter mile of our house, just in the past couple months we're at 7-8 incidents. I even was outside about 20ft away from people shooting at each other in their cars (terrifying). Our county has had a couple city council sessions to try and address the violence. But, tbh, I just don't think I'm able to feel safe here. Which is to say, essentially, in the hopefully nearer-than-not future, we will be moving.

As much as I badly want Misty to have a sister and as disappointing as it is to have the ideal timeline disrupted, future miss felony probably exists at least a year, maybe even two, away. Unless some maybe maybes happen. On the brightside, a non-negotiable is a bigger yard/more land, so the pup(s) will be very happy with their zoom space.

[thespectralkitsune]

Thinking up character interactions is fun

like

Jaern would be shunned by all of Torren, but this man would sit down and have an hour long conversation with literally anyone

So I was thinking of getting him and Zenith to just hang out from time to time. Like ‘Yeah we had basically opposing goals before but now that’s all blown outta the water wanna go get some lunch together and hang out’

And they’d talk to one another about how things are going, and whatever their goals are for that week or month or whatever

And whenever Singed and Oracle leave for whatever, he takes care of their Torchics

[themotelchicks]

Doing what I should have done when I set these coops up & finally painting the insides of them! Before and after pics bc the transformation is 🤌 incredible lol (technically forgot to take a before pic of the coop I did so it's not the same coop in the after but they all look a bit similar so it works)

Absolutely did not expect for this to take as long as it did. Figured it'd be a couple hours project and wound up out there all day. Worth it though because it looks so much nicer and will be way easier to keep clean now!

[paulpingminho]

[alcnfr]

Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) fledglings can look rather ungainly for a few days.

[timmurleyart]

Stop and go rooster. 🛑🟩🐓(mixed media on canvas)🐔

[britneyshakespeare]

i love chickens so much. on a regular basis i look at mine either in the yard or from out the window and i have to turn my head away cuz im gonna cry